This is my personal weblog, about my daily life and adventures. I maintain it so I can be in touch with my friends who are far away, and as part of a personal memory project.
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2010.12.28
Posting tweets for the times I didn't make blog posts. My kindly LJ stored them for me before we all went to twitter, then identi.ca. December 28
I had a romantic disappointment, a bad cold, a friend died, and it's December. Me for chocolate and Buffy, and a bit of boo-hoo. December 27
If we were already at Steven's I would be happy, but I am not, and I am happy nonetheless. I suspect there will not be more than two people here in future Xmases either. Sat Dec 25
Barry made a fancy breakfast, and then I read Tortilla Flat for a long time. I must bathe and wrap my mom's thing before we leave. Sat Dec 25
Seven new stalkers appeared on my Twitter. Sat Dec 25
My idea is to write letters to some of our dozens of former guests tomorrow and tell them what we have been up to. Sat Dec 25
Oops, it's Christmas. Seems just the same as four minutes ago when it wasn't. Except for the fact that there is so much candy around here, and good quality, so it points toward Xmas, not Halloween. Now we just need to find some children to appreciate it. Sat Dec 25
I enjoyed _Sweet Land_: "Norwegian-American farmer Olaf Torvik and his rural Minnesotan community must struggle to overcome years of anti-German propaganda and prejudice when he discovers that his mail-order bride, Inge (Elizabeth Reaser), is not only a German but also an accidental Socialist. Writer Ali Selim also directs this Independent Spirit Award-winning tale of love's triumph over ignorance." Sat Dec 25
Got everything done except wrapping my mom's thing, and it would be best not to wrap that too tightly anyway, so I guess I'll read _Tortilla Flat_ for a while. We'll see lots of people I like tomorrow. Fri Dec 24
A and Katharina went to Disneyland without me, which was very sensible. I only feel left out THIS MUCH. (demonstrated with one hand) Fri Dec 24
RT @Wcopley: brilliant _Night before Batmas_! http://wendolonia.com/blog/2010/12/24/twas-the-night-before-batmas/ Fri Dec 24
Stefanie gave us chocolate bars, our favorite kinds! That was very thoughtful. Fri Dec 24
Watching _Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa_, I like it! Many amusing touches. Mon Dec 20
Oh, Amanda Palmer at last! "I Google You" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUOgGNaNOxc&feature=related Mon Dec 20
Neil Gaiman "Crazy Hair" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mx_l1bBrPk&feature=related Mon Dec 20
Today was scary. There was a drain blockage that cause water to back up and ruin my new floor, and the bottom of one of my new cabinets. See, that's the trouble, the cabinets are on top of the floor, and it takes a week to install cabinets, so removing them is no small decision. J says I should rent a kerosene heater and see if I can dry everything out that way. I left an electric heater on the floor overnight. But I'm not really going to feel good about this until we remove the floor, because the wool underlayment holds the water. I mean, wool, right? That is how the floor can be warm even though it is on a cement slab. On the other hand, bamboo, right? It grows in water. But it's not the floor that is being wrecked so much as the finish. We removed the wet part of the floor that was not under the cabinets, and that was not very much floor, because we cleverly did not level the floor properly and the water just went in one little under-floor stream from under the kitchen sink about ten or twelve feet to approximately above where the iron sewer pipe exits the building. The floor we removed, about six boxes worth, is drying out in the carport. Really, the only part of the floor that is wrecked and can't be remediated is about 3.5 x 4.5 in the kitchen. If we can determine tomorrow how much we will need to replace it, we can still get it from Ecohaus. They have 900 sf left, and it will take four weeks to get more, so we just have to order it before their 900 sf are gone.
hm, Nikita's LoudTwitter is still working, but mine quit in July. Mon Dec 20
Goodbye party for Qian, and Phillip and Youssef have left too... Sun Dec 19
LJ has changed from giving me 200 previous entries to 100. Soon we will go look for Qian's present. Sun Dec 19
staying out of the rain, avoiding work, reading boingboing Sat Dec 18
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2010.12.15
so sleepy. this is why I have a bedtime, I remember. How about if I stick to it tonight. Sat Dec 11
A is out of the hospital! And I have the house to myself, so I am also free. My internet is not down, I have work and chocolate. Thu Dec 9
I didn't need to worry about the cake. Various people cam over and 1/3 of it is gone already. Sat Dec 4
I have some work, but I don't want to do it. I want to watch all of Angel again, like I did last December, but prob my brain deserves better Sat Dec 4
The girls made me an apfelkuchen for a surprise! Now I have an awful lot of cake for someone who doesn't eat grain. But what a kind surprise Fri Dec 3
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2009.11.24
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
7:00 pm - Daily Tweets
* 11:38 ident works for me now! yay!
Location: tinyurl.com/y4b082861
* 11:46 farmer's market, downtown berkeley. Finally someone,
Midnite Bakery, makes a breakfast with food value, the flax seed scone. Also so good!
* 11:47 So yeah, another rainy day of arithmetic looms, and I'm not entirely displeased.
* 12:43 We're watching the news. People are salsa dancing. I've never seen it. I thought I had, but the dancing on TV now is different and nice.
* 12:52 first Fail Whale I've seen in a while. About to go open escrow! Way too nervous.
* 13:06 @lisaga: twitterific is working ok for me.
* 13:07 Downloaded what I could find of new FNMA/Freddie rules. "Overthinking again," or saving buckets of money? If (last laugh), I will have it.
* 13:17 www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/centralfrance/6589449/French-hamster-hotel-lets-guests-live-like-rodents.html
* 13:22 Computer fixed beautifully by DT&T Computer Service in Fremont, ask for Brian. Bezel and hinge, but not LCD, were broken, so tricky work.
* 13:44 @ wow, I have 54 messages on OK Cupid. I didn't know I had an in box. I thought the reason I never got a message was that no one liked me.
* 13:47 Have added mate to my morning psychotropics...doesn't make me more eager to work, put perkier. store.amigofoods.com/crdemapr.html
* 14:17 Looks like my identi.ca posts are no longer being broadcast to twitter, but the fb broadcast still works. Will stop investigating now!
* 14:19 looking into free time-tracking/focus enhancing service www.rescuetime.com/signup/solo. About to start working on scheduled stuff.
* 14:30 A and I are studying _Singing in the Rain_.
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
7:00 pm - Daily Tweets
* 07:21 @jozafiend: Persuing booty? Following a map? On a deadan's chest?
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
7:00 pm - Daily Tweets
* 10:11 @mcberch: thanks for chocolate tip!
* 10:12 hm, identi.ca's broadcast to twitter stopped working, must investigate.
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
7:00 pm - Daily Tweets
* 20:13 culling followers who are strangers, watching monk like @joedecker
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
7:00 pm - Daily Tweets
* 18:01 o is make a calendar of all the days between now and closing, which is only about five weeks, and what I will do on each day. I also must
* 18:03 strike a balance between conserving capital and skillfully applying capital to help us out.
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
7:00 pm - Daily Tweets
* 18:01 I sold the gold I've been hanging onto my whole adult life. It's very strange.
* 17:59 The court confirmed our house contract. I should be very pleased, and I will be, but tonight I'm super stressed. The first thing for me to d
Monday, November 16th, 2009
7:00 pm - Daily Tweets
* 19:56 another day of domestic bliss
* 20:03 Zaya rum from Trinidad, a true sipping rum.
* 12:38 @evan: that was fast. But Rome! I hope the trip was wonderful.
* 12:38 Yes, I WILL make it to Pilates today, and I have already walked.
* 12:40 @wcopley: your kids are too cute. Look out you don't have to pay some kind of tax on that.
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
7:00 pm - Daily Tweets
* 11:33 I would like to go for a hike. I must make some friends who like to get outdoors. I love hiking by myself in summer but in winter I could
* 11:34 use the extra incentive of some company. I met this one gal who might like to bikeride, but she is in Fremont. Hm.
* 11:35 Oh, well, by the time I do all these spreadsheets I committed to it will be night again.
* 11:36 But, yeah, news? I hear the inventor of Dvorak, who I think is named Mr. Dvorak, is developing a new typing method for touch screens like my
* 11:36 iPhone. Just a rumor for now.
* 11:38 OK, seems I am using my computer so I'll turn on KQED on iTunes and listen to PHC. Ah, that's better.
* 11:39 Ste reminded me it's Dad's birthday. I love him and he is gone.
* 11:41 @inamorata: hooray for wonderful days! wishing you many more.
* 11:55 dreaming of adventure www.intoindia.com/rafting.html rt@simonsaichek
* 12:00 if they would give some order of magnitude on prices, they would inspire more viewers to buy tours
* 13:22 Waiting for Overly-fussy-wishes-she-could-live-here-girl to come look at everything again. I don't think she is gonna get the room.
* 13:24 @wcopley: so the disaster was in the process? That's no good. I hope you still enjoyed it somehow.
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
7:00 pm - Daily Tweets
* 21:26 found all the money. brenda's making brownies but i'm brushing my teeth anyway. big yoga workshop tomorrow so I had better sleep.
* 13:06 @majnoona: thanks for new icon! You look great of course. // Going to look at houses, attend yoga workshop, come back here and work. No mom.
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
7:01 pm - Daily Tweets
* 09:29 as Makalu still works, I decided to keep using as is until it doesn't work. god bless my Sonic backup. I found a guy to fix it for 350 he
* 09:30 sez, sight unseen, but I still need that 350 for property taxes.
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
7:00 pm - Daily Tweets
* 19:46 Jon Stewart imitating Glenn Beck is hilarious. He doesn't do these extended 1-man parodies often. The man is indisputably a national treasur
* 10:55 post-heater-exchange, post-farmers market, pre- practice, -exercise, -manicure. how about that new verizon phone with the keyboard? any1 no?
* 10:58 oh, yay! iDent works for me now! oh, ps, my hardware guy has vanished and MacBook still broken. any leads on fixing? the display cracked on
* 10:59 side near hinge.
Friday, November 6th, 2009
7:00 pm - Daily Tweets
* 15:28 My internet is vastly improved; I had a lovely lunch with a kind and interesting friend; I've only make 10K all year; I'm nice and cozy now.
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
7:01 pm - Daily Tweets
* 06:55 Oh, hi, there! Yes, I get up at 6:30 now. No, no, it's perfectly fine.
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
7:00 pm - Daily Tweets
* 15:50 feeling good, lot of 1000 Hats work to do. Still at zip for Big Brain work, and formerly cool client has decided to rip me off. Seller of
* 15:51 plex will give me and A, and other bidders, a tour tonight to see who bolts
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
6:02 pm - Daily Tweets
* 19:57 best pumpkin pie I've ever had: missionpie.com/
* 09:11 A late again. If only he would suffer some consequence. Going to a workshop today. Must pack.
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
6:02 pm - Daily Tweets
* 14:18 waiting to hear back from Oakland rent control. doing other stuff instead of obsessing fruitlessly
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
6:02 pm - Daily Tweets
* 20:18 Michelle moved all the travel stuff into the new closet while *I* got a manicure. Very luxurious. While I was down on 4th St, saw our ex-dog
* 20:18 Sheba with her new family. She was very happy to see me and gave me lots of kisses. Her people really seem to appreciate her.
* 12:54 Back from Manzanita, with Monet, Brenda, and Barry. Brenda told us all about working in Dubai. Very interesting. Still putting off 1000 hats
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
6:01 pm - Daily Tweets
* 20:48 I figured it out. Every time I take my tinctures I get a square of contraband chocolate.
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
6:00 pm - Daily Tweets
* 23:08 oh, yay, apparently I have joined a cult
* 23:12 also I gave some bad news and got some good news. I think I need some new icons. I have an outraged leopard and a lackadaisical dog. Let's
* 23:13 see what a little Photoshop can do.
* 09:19 I just realized the irony: I take a tincture to improve my sense of taste. But I hate the taste of tinctures.
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2008.12.30
Fine dinner with SN. We do this every year to remind ourselves of our good fortune as we move into the new year.
I got a Family Plus membership at the California Academy of Sciences, as my total remaining charitable donation. Well, it's $250, and I lost $75K in the crash, so I think $250 is enough.
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2007.12.25
Perfectly lovely little party at Anet's. Barry wore my dad's red velour shirt, as it was easily the most Christmassy thing in the house, and it was nice to see him in it. I adore Anet's sisters, and everyone was kind to Pisco. Barry and I had to go walk dogs for an hour and when we got back it was time for the best pecan pie I can remember, with liquor in both the pie and the cream. Scott so kindly brought me the Volvo from Ste's. I've really liked not being responsible for driving around this month. Ah, well.
Pisco continues to mystify. He asks continually for attention but doesn't want pets or cuddles. He shakes for no reason and stops for no reason. He's such a sweetie, I'd like to give him what he wants if it doesn't contravene the Dog Rules, but so far, I haven't figured it out. Unless I have.
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2007.01.01
Still sick, third day of exercise, 2nd day of flylady. J started installing kitchen an dinette heaters. I'm close enough to out of money that I had to make some plans for how to pay people.
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2006.01.01
After hearing myself make unfortunate use of my first words of the new year (where the hell are my goddamn slippers...whoops), I drove down and met the folks at MacArthur Park restaurant for brunch. I brought the truffles I had made for Dad, and he was quite pleased. You know, I don't want to go to fancy restaurants with people who shouldn't be spending their money on ephemeral junk; I like to go out under the sky or among the trees or on the water and appreciate the real world in the new year. But of course if this is what my family wants I am glad I got to be there.
Belize said she also watched the ball drop in Times Square, and her expectations were also fuddled. Hers had been more dramatic...she had expected the ball to EXPLODE. I suggested she sabotage it next year.
Brunch was good, the girls were thrilled that I could teach them to make truffles in the future, and Selora promised some outdoors time this month.
When I got home I found I had wrecked the truffle molds by washing them in the dishwasher.
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Finally baked the first two batches of nutbread. Made the batter in the giant salad bowl but still got butter all over myself from not wearing an apron. Now my shirt is delicious. I'm pretty fond of the shirt, actually, it's kind of my favorite, so I do hope the butter comes off.
Changed the halogen bulb and watched the 1938 Christmas Carol. Funny, I remembered it being scary, but it's not at all. Leo Carrol, Topper, was Marley's Ghost. I have to say, Jason Alexander was a lot better. Of course our modern cinema stands on the shoulders of the older works, but I'm sorry, the newest one was just SO good that the 1938 one was hard to appreciate.
And added + and - 10 and 100 to the storyprinter page, oh, I should have made it powers of 2, like 16 and 256. Next month.
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